GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0)
vs
ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO


GPU comparison with benchmarks

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0) is based on the AMD Radeon RX 590 (GCN 4) and has 8 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 256 GB/s.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO is based on the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660 (Turing) and has 6 GB GDDR5 graphics memory with a bandwidth of 192 GB/s.

GPU

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0) has the Polaris 30 XT graphics chip installed, which is based on the GCN 4 architecture.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO is based on the graphics chip TU116-300-A1, which comes from the Turing architecture.
GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0) GPU ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO
AMD Radeon RX 590 Based on NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1660
Polaris 30 XT GPU Chip TU116-300-A1
GCN 4 Architecture Turing
36 Streaming Multiprocessors 22
2304 Shader 1408
32 Render Output Units 48
144 Texture Units 88
0 Raytracing Cores 0

Memory

The graphics memory of the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0) clocks at 2.000 GHz, which corresponds to a speed of 8.0 Gbps.

The graphics memory speed of the ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO is 8.0 Gbps and the clock speed is 2.000 GHz.

8 GB Memory Size 6 GB
GDDR5 Memory Type GDDR5
2.000 GHz Memory Clock 2.000 GHz
8.0 Gbps Memory Speed 8.0 Gbps
256 GB/s Memory bandwidth 192 GB/s
256 bit Memory Interface 192 bit

Clock Speeds

The clock frequency of a graphics card determines the speed in connection with the graphics architecture.

1.469 GHz Base Clock 1.530 GHz
1.560 GHz Boost Clock 1.830 GHz
Avg (Game) Clock 1.80 GHz
Yes Overclocking Yes

Thermal Design

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0) is powered by 1 x 8-Pin connectors. The TDP (Thermal Design Power) of the graphics card is 225 W.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO has 1 x 8-Pin PCIe power connectors that supply it with energy. The manufacturer specifies the TDP of the card as 120 W.

225 W TDP 120 W
-- TDP (up) --
98 °C Tjunction max 95 °C
1 x 8-Pin PCIe-Power 1 x 8-Pin

Cooler & Fans

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0) is equipped with a total of 2 Axial main fans.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO has 2 Axial main fans that cool the GPU and memory.

Axial Fan-Type Axial
2 x 90 mm Fan 1 2 x 90 mm
-- Fan 2 --
Air cooling Cooler-Type Air cooling
0 dB Noise (Idle) dB
-- Noise (Load) --

Connectivity

Up to 4 screens can be operated with the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0).

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO supports the operation of a maximum of 3 monitors.

4 Max. Displays 3
2.2 HDCP-Version 2.2
1x HDMI v2.0b HDMI Ports 1x HDMI v2.0b
3x DP v1.4 DP Ports 1x DP v1.4
1 DVI Ports 1
-- VGA Ports --
-- USB-C Ports --

Featureset

With the GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0) it is possible to operate a screen with a maximum resolution of up to 7680x4320 pixels.

The maximum supported resolution of the ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO is 7680x4320 pixels.

7680x4320 Max. resolution 7680x4320
12 DirectX 12_1
No Raytracing No
Yes DLSS / FSR Yes
GIGABYTE RGB Fusion LED No LED lighting

Supported Video Codecs

The support and acceleration of certain video codecs can have a positive impact on the lower energy consumption and less waste heat from the graphics card.

Decode / Encode h264 Decode / Encode
Decode / Encode h265 / HEVC Decode / Encode
No AV1 No
Decode VP8 Decode
Decode VP9 Decode

Dimensions

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0) is connected to the system via PCIe 3.0 x 16 lanes and requires 2 PCIe-Slots space in the housing.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO needs the space of 3 PCIe-Slots in the case and has a PCIe 3.0 x 16 Lanes interface.

232 mm Length 242 mm
116 mm Height 130 mm
40 mm Width 53 mm
2 PCIe-Slots Width (Slots) 3 PCIe-Slots
-- Weight --
PCIe 3.0 x 16 GPU Interface PCIe 3.0 x 16

Additional data

The GIGABYTE Radeon RX 590 Gaming 8G (rev. 1.0) has been manufactured with a structure width of 14 nanometers since Q4/2018.

The ASUS Dual GeForce GTX 1660 Advanced EVO came on the market in Q1/2019 and will have a structure width of 12 nanometers manufactured.

GV-RX590GAMING-8GD Part-no DUAL-GTX1660-A6G-EVO
Q4/2018 Release date Q1/2019
279 $ Launch Price 219 $ (Reference)
14 nm Structure size 12 nm
data sheet Documents data sheet

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Benchmark results

3DMark Benchmark (DirectX, Raytracing)

3DMark is a benchmark program that determines the performance of certain components of a computer and then reports the performance as a numerical value.

Time Spy Extreme Graphics score

Port Royal (Raytracing)

The Last of Us Part 1

The Last of Us Part One is a game released by Sony in June 2013 exclusively for the Playstation and released for the PC in early 2023. The benchmark values here were determined at high details.

1920x1080 (1080p)

Battlefield 5

Battlefield 5 is a visually stunning game that is ideal as a graphics card benchmark. We test the game with maximum details on Windows 10.

3840x2160 (2160p)

2560x1440 (1440p)

1920x1080 (1080p)

Geekbench 6 (OpenCL, Vulkan, Metal)

Geekbench 6 is a cross-platform benchmark for main processors, which also carries out 3 different graphics benchmarks and outputs them in the form of a numerical value.

Geekbench 6 - OpenCL

Geekbench 6 - Vulkan

Geekbench 6 - Metal

FP32 Performance (Single-precision TFLOPS)

The theoretical computing power of the graphics card with single precision (32 bit) in TFLOPS indicates how many trillion FP32 floating point operations the graphics card (GPU) can perform per second.

FP32 (TFLOPS)

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